The
history of elemental beings including incubi and succubi or “alien-demons”
by any other name is often closely associated with a variety of shapeshifting
monsters and “cryptids” (from the Greek “???pt?”
[krypto] meaning “hide”), whose existence is difficult to
prove by means of their ability to apparently move in and out of Earth’s
dimension or man’s visible spectrum—the human range of sight.

Examples
of these would include the Yeti in the Himalayas, the famous Bigfoot or
Sasquatch of mainly the Pacific Northwest region of North America and
Canada,
and the Loch Ness Monster of Scotland. Hoaxes aside, literally tens of
thousands of people throughout history and around the world (including
reputable individuals such as clergy, professionals, military, law enforcement
personnel, and even anthropologists) have seen, found biological samples
of such in hair and footprint evidence, and even filmed and recorded the
creatures’ unidentifiable language vocalizations, but have up until
now failed to capture a single physical specimen...that the public knows
of. Witness testimonies often include reports of fantastic sizes—from
enormous dragons in the sea to giant bipeds ranging in height from eight
to twelve feet, with footprints up to twenty-four inches. And then there
are the phenomena frequently connected with the appearance of cryptids
that are typical of occult activity—a retching or sulfuric odor,
mysterious rapping on walls and windows, shadows and ghostly lights inside
or outside homes, disembodied voices, the levitation or disappearance
of furniture and other household items, etc.

Possibly
the earliest account of a Bigfoot sighting in the US was published over
125 years ago in a historical pamphlet that told of frontiersmen coming
across a “wild man” in the Siskiyou Mountains of Northern
California. “The thing was of gigantic size—about seven feet
tall—with a bulldog head, short ears, and long hair; it was also
furnished with a beard, and was free from hair on such parts of its body
as is common among men.”[i] Another barely known confrontation with
a large, hairy biped was actually reported by President Theodore Roosevelt,
an avid outdoorsman. Noah Hutchings writes of this event: “The story
appeared in The Wilderness Hunter published in 1893. The account given
by Roosevelt related that some kind of a wild beast had killed a man and
had eaten half his body in a mountain range between the Salmon and Windom
rivers. The following year, two hunters were camping in the same area
when they became aware that they were being watched by a strange creature
walking on two legs. The next day, the hunters separated. One of the hunters
arrived at camp to find the other hunter dead with his neck broken and
severe wounds to the throat area. In the article, Mr. Roosevelt reported
his belief that the hunter was killed by ‘something either half-human
or half-devil, some great goblin-beast.’”[ii] There are even
reports of apelike creatures shot and killed followed by similar creatures
coming to retrieve the corpse. One such story tells of a Bigfoot being
put down and afterwards, similar large, hairy beings coming out of the
woods to recover the body. The same creatures returned again later to
attack the cabin of those miners who had killed the beast. An account
of this event states:

At night
the apes counterattacked, opening the assault by knocking a heavy strip
of wood out from between two logs of the miners’ cabin. After that
there were assorted poundings on the walls, door, and roof, but the building
was built to withstand heavy mountain snows and the apes failed to break
in.… There was…the sound of rocks hitting the roof and rolling
off, and [the miners] did brace the heavy door from the inside.

They
heard creatures thumping around on top of the cabin as well as battering
the walls, and they fired shots through the walls and roof without driving
them away. The noise went on from shortly after dark till near dawn.…
The cabin had no windows and of course no one opened the door, so in fact
the men inside did not see what was causing the commotion outside.

Nor
could Mr. Beck say for sure…that there were more than two creatures
outside. There were [at least] that many because there had been one on
the roof and one pounding the wall simultaneously. However many there
were, it was enough for the miners, who packed up and abandoned their
mine the next day.[iii]

One
of the more disturbing and better documented cases concerning large nonhuman
primates occurred on October 25, 1973, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania,
when a young farmer named Stephen Pulaski and more than a dozen others
observed a bright red ball of light accompanied by large humanoids. The
twenty-two-year-old farmer with two younger boys watched from a hilltop
as a bright, “dome shaped” object, making a “sound like
a lawn mower,” settled over a field. He guessed it measured about
one hundred fifty feet in diameter. Suddenly, Pulaski caught sight of
two large creatures, which at first he thought were bears—one about
seven feet tall and the other taller than eight feet—walking by
a fence line. He was able to approximate their size fairly accurately,
because they were silhouetted against the railing boards. They were covered
with long, dark hair and had arms that hung down like a gorilla’s.
The beings were making a sound like babies whimpering, and a terrible
odor like burning rubber was wafting up the hill from them. The entities
saw Pulaski and the two young men and started toward them. As the younger
boys ran toward the farmhouse, the twenty-two-year-old fired a warning
shot over the creatures’ heads with his hunting rifle. When they
continued forward, he shot three more times, this time directly at the
larger of the two. The big, hairy biped acted like it was hit, raised
its right hand, and the dome-shaped object went silent, disappearing instantaneously,
but being replaced by a glowing area on the ground. At that, the beings
turned and headed into the woods. A few minutes later, a state trooper
arrived to investigate the shooting. He went with the farmer down onto
the field to within two hundred yards of the incident area. The officer
later reported that the ground was still glowing when they got there.
Trees began breaking in the forest, and the men thought something large
was moving towards them from the woods. It abruptly stopped, then, thirty
minutes later, it started moving again. A large, brown figure could be
seen coming their direction, so they jumped into the patrol car and sped
to safety.

Early
the next morning, members of the Westmoreland County UFO Study Group arrived
at the farm to begin an investigation. They noted that Pulaski’s
dog seemed to be tracking something they couldn’t make out in the
woods. As they were talking with the young farmer and his father, Pulaski
inexplicably began behaving as if he were demon possessed—convulsing,
growling, and flailing about. His own dog ran at him, and he attacked
it. At the same moment, two of the investigators started feeling lightheaded
and were having difficulty breathing. Pulaski suddenly knocked his father
down as he fainted onto the ground, face first into manure. When he snapped
out of it a few moments later, he started growling like an animal and
warned, “Get away from me. It’s here. Get back.” A sulfuric
aroma filled the air as Pulaski reported seeing a figure cloaked in all
black garbs saying something to him about a man “who is coming to
save the world.” Pulaski was subsequently evaluated physically and
psychologically and found to be of sound mind and truthful. Numerous witnesses
at various phases of the incident also testified that the event actually
happened as reported.

The
Pulaski farm is one example of thousands of comparable events wherein
cryptids have appeared accompanied by spiritualistic and demonological
characteristics. In another account, both a giant and small creature teamed
up to torture a young woman. This was not only captured by multiple eyewitnesses,
but also was played out repeatedly in a prison cell before dumbfounded
police officers, prison guards, medical staff, and dozens of reporters
in the heart of Manila, capital city of the Philippines. In this case,
physical evidence was even captured in the form of long, black hair from
a beast that was never identified. At the center of the episode was one
of America’s most well-known ordained ministers, Dr. Lester Sumrall,
who formed the LeSEA broadcast network.

In the
early 1950s, Dr. Sumrall was in Manila building a church, which today
is known as the Cathedral of Praise. On May 12, 1953, the Daily Mirror
in Manila published a startling story under the headline, “Police
Medic Explodes Biting Demons Yarn,” in which a most unusual story
unfolded of law enforcers and medical examiners being mystified by an
inmate whose body continuously bore deep teeth marks. The frightened girl
claimed that two beings were appearing and biting her. One of the devils
was big and dark with long hair all over his head, chest, and arms. He
had fangs like a dog and large, sharp eyes, and his feet were at least
three times larger than normal. He was dressed in a black robe with what
appeared to be a hood on the back. His voice was deep, with a tunnel-like
echo. The second being was squatty, maybe thirty inches tall, and it was
also dark, hairy, and deformed. As the witnesses watched, the girl’s
facial expressions would suddenly change, and she would begin glancing
about, as if she was seeing something the others could not. (What she
was seeing was dubbed “The Thing” by the press.) Then the
girl would start screaming and struggling against an invisible force,
before collapsing, half-conscious, into the arms of the prison staff member
holding her. At that moment, there would be teeth marks wet with saliva
marking her body. Dr. Mariano B. Lara, then chief medical examiner of
the Manila Police Department and a university professor of pathology and
legal medicine, was convinced of the genuineness of the possession and
exorcism and provided his own description, recounted in this excerpt from
the official medical report filed at the prison:

I find
it difficult and near impossible to accept anything of a supernatural
character.… Equipped with a magnifying lens and an unbelieving mind
about this biting phenomena, I scrutinized carefully the exposed parts
of her [Clarita Villanueva’s] body, the arms, hands, and neck, to
find out whether they had the biting impressions. I saw the reddish human-like
bite marks on the arms.… At that very instant, this girl in a semi-trance
loudly screamed repeatedly.… I saw, with my unbelieving eyes, the
clear marks or impressions of human-like teeth from both the upper and
lower jaws. It was a little moist in the area bitten on the dorsal aspect
of the left hand, and the teeth impressions were mostly from the form
of the front or incisor teeth. Seeing these with my unbelieving eyes,
yet I could not understand nor explain how they were produced as her hand
had all the time been held away from the reach of her mouth.…

In full
possession of her normal mind, I asked her (Clarita Villanueva) who was
causing her to suffer from the bites. She answered that there are two
who are alternately biting her; one big, black, hairy human-like fellow,
very tall, with two sharp eyes, two sharp canine teeth, long beard like
a Hindu, hairy extremities and chest, wearing a black garment, with a
little whitish piece on the back resembling a hood. His feet are about
three times the size of normal feet. The other fellow is a very small
one about two or three feet tall allegedly also black, hairy and ugly.[iv]

After
first hearing the report on the radio then reading the newspaper story
the next day, Dr. Sumrall, who believed the girl was demon possessed,
grew convicted that the Lord wanted him to procure permission from prison
authorities to pray for the prostitute’s deliverance. Through his
church architect, who was a friend of the mayor of Manila, he received
the okay to visit with the chief medical advisor of the police department,
Dr. Mariano Lara. While talking with the doctor inside the prison morgue,
Lara acknowledged to Sumrall that something beyond his professional knowledge
was happening and that he was actually afraid of “The Thing”
after witnessing the bite marks appear before his own eyes. With Lara’s
approval, Sumrall was allowed to pray for the girl while observers watched.
She was very resistant, cursing him in English (which she could not speak),
screaming, and fighting every moment to get away. The first day of prayer
failed to provide healing, and Sumrall believed he needed to fast and
pray for another day. That evening, the newspaper published his picture
on the front page, three columns wide, with the headline, “The Thing
Defies Pastor.”[v] The next day would be different. Following a
spiritual battle reminiscent of an Old Testament prophet challenging the
followers of Baal, and with repentance of her sins and acceptance of Jesus
as Savior, the girl was delivered, yet, that was not the end of the story.
Sumrall explains what happened next:

As I
was leaving I told Clarita that I was sure these devils would return.
“After I am gone,” I said, “they will come. Then you
must demand them to leave without my being present. You must say, ‘Go,
in Jesus’ name,’ and they will obey.” With this I left
the compound.

We asked
the newsmen not to write about the morning’s events, but they said
they were obliged to. The story had run for two weeks and it must be concluded.
Since the Methodist Church is the oldest Protestant denomination in the
islands, they presumed I was a Methodist, and it was in the papers that
way. They did not know how to write of such an experience; therefore,
some of what they said was not correct. But I feel mostly responsible
for this, as I gave them no interview and left the city to get away from
publicity.

The
devils did return to attack Clarita, and a strange thing happened when
she called on them to leave. She was engaged in a mortal struggle and
went into a coma, her fists clenched. The doctor pried her hands open
and to his astonishment, there lay some long, black, coarse hair. Dr.
Lara placed this hair in an envelope and put it in a guarded place. Under
the microscope he found that the hair was not from any part of the human
body. The doctor has no answer to this mystery—how an invisible
being, presumably a devil, could have lost hair by a visible being pulling
it out.[vi] (emphasis added)

The
notion of physical material like hair having been pulled from a wraithlike
demon opens the fascinating proposal that ultraterrestrial beings (call
them angels, demons, or aliens) can migrate back and forth between different
realities and take forms that are both material and immaterial. This sounds
crazy to the natural mind, yet the concept is biblical. The writer of
Hebrews reminds us to “be not forgetful to entertain strangers:
for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Heb. 13:2),
and when the disciples of Jesus saw His return from the grave, they “were
terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.”
Jesus told them to touch Him and see that “a spirit hath not flesh
and bones, as ye see me have” (Luke 24:37–39). Similarly,
Abraham was visited by three angels in the plains of Mamre (Genesis 18:1–8).
They appeared as men and walked, talked, sat, and ate. But the truth was
they were not human at all, but spirit-beings from heaven, illustrating
one of the most dynamic facts of Scripture: that otherdimensional life
forms have power to assume tangible matter whenever it fits their cause.
Does this explain how cryptids can be there one moment and gone the next,
leaving man perplexed by their appearance and disappearance? Does this
not remind of the Rephaim, which exist in the spirit world but could also
have the ability to manifest on Earth as giant, hairy bipeds known in
the Bible as Nephilim and perhaps today as Bigfoot?

Incidentally,
hair from the Manila “Thing” is not the only example found.

In October
2012, a headline in the UK’s Mail Online read: “Sasquatch
in Siberia? Hair Found in Russian Cave ‘Belonged to Unknown Mammal
Closely Related to Man.’” The story claimed that DNA tests
on suspected “Yeti hair” found in a Siberian cave during an
international expedition in 2011 was of an unknown mammal closely related
to man, but not a human. Nor did the hair belong to any known animal from
the region such as a bear, wolf, or goat, the article said. Analysis was
conducted in Russia and the US, which “agreed the hair came from
a human-like creature which is not a Homo sapien yet is more closely related
to man than a monkey.”[vii]

Then,
on November 24, 2012, another press release was issued involving a team
of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging, and pathology led by Dr. Melba
S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, Texas, and their five-year long DNA study (submitted
for peer review), which claimed “the existence of a novel hominin
hybrid species, commonly called ‘Bigfoot’ or ‘Sasquatch,’
living in North America.” The DNA sequencing suggested that the
legendary Sasquatch is actually “a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens
with an unknown primate species.” Dr. Ketchum reported that her
team sequenced three complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and determined
the species is a human hybrid. “Our study…utilized next generation
sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch
samples,” Ketchum said. “The genome sequencing shows that
Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA
is a novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate
species. Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid
species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with
female Homo sapiens.”[viii]

Ketchum,
a veterinarian whose professional experience includes twenty-seven years
of research in genetics, including forensics, continued:

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The
male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this hybrid is
unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other recently
discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual. Sasquatch nuclear DNA
is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has
human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human,
non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic
of human and novel non-human sequence. Further study is needed and is
ongoing to better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA.[ix]

That
Ketchum and her team’s findings were reported before being peer
reviewed is suspect and may turn out to be erroneous. On the other hand,
if validated, it could be another baffling evidence fragment connected
to that mysterious creature we call “Bigfoot” and “Sasquatch.”

We ramp
up this investigation into 'Skinwalking, Shapeshifting, Demonic Werewolves'
in the next entry...

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Possibly
the earliest account of a Bigfoot sighting in the US was published over
125 years ago in a historical pamphlet that told of frontiersmen coming
across a “wild man” in the Siskiyou Mountains of Northern
California.